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The Toba eruption (sometimes called the Toba supereruption or the Youngest Toba eruption) was a supervolcanic eruption that occurred about 74,000 years ago during the Late Pleistocene [2] at the site of present-day Lake Toba in Sumatra, Indonesia.
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Mount Toba, ancient volcano located in the Barisan Mountains, north-central Sumatra, Indonesia. A massive eruption sometime between 71,000 and 74,000 years ago expelled an estimated 2,800 cubic km (about 670 cubic miles) of ash and lava.
Because the hidden history encoded in our DNA pointed to the near-extinction event for Homo sapiens occurring 50,000–100,000 years ago, Toba was the most obvious suspect. A growing body of...
Deep within the Indonesian island of Sumatra lies a sleeping giant: the Toba supervolcano. It is responsible for the largest known explosive eruption in human history, which took place 74,000 years ago. Debates about the impact of this explosion continue today.
Lake Toba (Indonesian: Danau Toba, Toba Batak: ᯖᯀᯬ ᯖᯬᯅ; romanized: Tao Toba) is a large natural lake in North Sumatra, Indonesia, occupying the caldera of the Toba supervolcano.
The Toba supervolcano eruption at 74 ka has been the largest natural disaster known in the past 2.5 million years 8. It injected up to 100 times more SO 2 into the stratosphere than Mt Pinatubo...